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Friday, November 8, 2013

With a Little Knowledge, You can do a lot of Damage

Many years ago, I was enrolled in a personal finance related course. I was one of those borderline annoying students who liked to shout out answers to questions in class. I am sure that some of the other students couldn't stand me because of it, but whatever. So, the course instructor asked the class a question and I was the only person in the class to know the answer. It wasn't even information that was esoteric, but for some reason the instructor was impressed that I knew the answer to his question. During the class break, the instructor asked me where I learned the answer to the question that he had asked earlier. he was so curious because it wasn't a topic that was covered in the course textbook and he never went over the topic in class. I told him that I had read about it in a book.

He then nodded and said, "With a little knowledge, you can do a lot of damage". And this is something that stuck with me all these years. It also brings me to the point of this article: There is enough information available for you to achieve any objective ti is that you wish to achieve. It does not matter if your goal is to lose weight, start a business, or find a natural treatment for a disease, the information is out there.In most cases, information can be obtained for low cost or free. If you want someone else to do most of the heavy lifting in terms of research and save you some time, then you may need to be willing to pay a premium for good, solid, thorough information. In that situation, you will need to pay an expert/coach, attend a seminar, or purchase some training courses for the sort of specialized information that you are seeking. The point that I am illustrating is that whether the information is free or not, it is out there.Now as far as the free information available, the most obvious place to get it is on the Internet. You could jump on search engines like, Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Websites such as Wikipedia.org and Howstuffworks.com are also very interesting and helpful. Not only is YouTube a great place to watch entertaining videos, it is a destination for an education. The YouTube channel, Khan Academy is highly recommended. I am not saying that everything out there on the Internet is true and accurate, but these websites are good starting places.